Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting last Tuesday, Harvard's Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 24 seniors to the honorary society...
Wolf experts have long known that a pack has a social structure, but Mech and Brandenburg got to observe it intimately. The pack is led by a dominant, "alpha," male and female, and every other wolf knows its place in the chain of command. Much of wolf home life is focused on teaching the pups to be competitive, while at the same time schooling them in the social graces of the hierarchy...
...odds of winning the spiffy Mustang convertible in the Alpha Beta supermarket chain's California Dreamin' sweepstakes, the entry form said, were about 1 in 3.7 million. But for Navy Mechanic James Lee of San Diego, it was a cinch. In fact, a year after claiming the Mustang, Lee was lucky enough to win a $28,500 Chevy Corvette in a Taco Bell sweepstakes. Last week a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lee, Marketing Executives John Curtin III and Kevin Kissane and two of their relatives on mail-fraud charges of rigging the sweepstakes. Curtin and Kissane...
...British government promised a thorough inquiry, as did the Piper Alpha's owner, Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. After the accident, Occidental promptly shut down the pipeline that services Piper Alpha and five other platforms, thereby temporarily cutting British North Sea oil production by 12.9%. The losses in export earnings and tax revenues from Piper Alpha alone were expected to cost the British government at least $1.2 billion a year, while the losses to insurance companies were likely to exceed $1 billion. Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer promised a contribution of $1.7 million to a Piper Alpha disaster fund...
...week's end more than 100 contract workers who had been refurbishing three other British platforms left their jobs, out of concern for their safety. They knew that the Piper Alpha's crewmen had been given extensive training to help them cope with a disaster. But they also knew that the ill-fated workers on the demolished rig never had a chance to use what they had learned...